Law School May Build New Wing on Langdell

A $1,000,000 addition to Landgdell will probably be built to house 200,000 volumes on International Law, Milton Katz '27, Director of International Legal Studies announced yesterday.

Construction of the addition is contingent on raising $500,000 from alumni and friends of the Law School to match an equal grant made in January by the Ford Foundation.

Present plans also depend on architects finding a scheme which will fill the needs of International Legal Studies within the financial and physical limitations new foreseen.

The proposed addition would not only house 200,000 volumes which are now inaccessible to most students, but would provide offices for six or eight professors, a reading room to accommodate about 100 students, and facilities for about 100 researchers.

Katz explained that he hoped to fill these needs with an addition to Langdell rather than in a new building, because this would tie international studies to the rest of the Law School. The University architects have not yet evolved a satisfactory scheme, he admitted.

Alumni Group Formed

An alumni group has been established to raise funds without cutting into the normal Law School income from alumni, Katz said, and he anticipated no difficulty in meeting the two-year deadline not by the Ford Foundation.

The Ford grant not only gave $500,000 for construction but an additional $1,500,000 to endow two professorships and expand research in international studies.